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Colten Boushie shooting in Saskatchewan fuels racist backlash | Aug 28 2016 | Dennis Gruending |
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Stephen Harper quits his day job, sets up 'international' consultancy -- brace for trouble! | Aug 27 2016 | David J. Climenhaga |
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Just what Canada and the world need! Another right-wing "consulting firm" with a murky mandate. There is a kind of fearful symmetry, to borrow a phrase, to yesterday's Facebook revelation that PM No. 27 (No. 22 if you don't count repeats) has quit his day job and set up a consulting firm in Calgary to occupy the hours he’ll need to while away in enforced retirement until something better comes his way.
Canadians are demanding a bold new future for our public postal system | Aug 26 2016 | rabble staff |
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Toronto Police request appeal to Supreme Court in G20 class-action suit | Aug 26 2016 | Krystalline Kraus |
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. It's been six years since the G20 summit was held in Ontario and demonstrations were held over multiple days in Toronto in the last days of June to coincide with the international event.
Turkey opens new front in its war against the Kurdish people in northern Syria | Aug 26 2016 | Roger Annis |
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Turkey has intervened militarily into the region of northern Syria surrounding the town of Jarablus. The intervention is being conducted in the name of "fighting ISIS" but is, in fact, a pre-emptive strike to prevent the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces from expanding their influence and territorial control across northern Syria.
Independent Jewish Voices responds to questionable Postmedia editorial | Aug 26 2016 | Independent Jewish Voices Canada |
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV), and by association, Canada's progressive movement, has come under libelous attack by the Vancouver Sun, owned by the Canadian Postmedia giant. 
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Here's what B.C. teachers aren't including on their back-to-school supply list -- but maybe they should | Aug 26 2016 | Lizanne Foster |
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From slave markets to supermarkets: Brazil's complex past and present aren't simply black and white | Aug 25 2016 | Robin Browne |
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. We left Rio on Aug. 18 and came to Brazil's former colonial capital, Salvador, a two-hour flight north. We're staying in an Airbnb apartment right on the beach where surfers come almost every morning to catch the big waves coming off the open Atlantic Ocean.
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Even though today's conservatism is a farce, you still don't get to be progressive by doing nothing | Aug 25 2016 | Phillip Dwight Morgan |
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. If several months of Trump sound bytes haven't made it clear by now, conservatism as it's depicted in the mainstream media has become a farce, a caricature rooted in oppression. Rather than communicating concrete economic, social, and environmental policies, conservatism has now become synonymous with overt racism, Islamophobia, misogyny, homophobia, and xenophobia.
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Trump is today's Ugly American, but there's much more to America than Donald Trump | Aug 25 2016 | Mel Watkins |
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Donald Trump is as American as white cops beating up Black men because they are Black, and sometimes forgetting to stop.
Open letter to Rona Ambrose on negative politicking | Aug 25 2016 | Linda Leon |
Like this blog? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Open Letter to Rona Ambrose, Interim Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada  Dear Ms. Ambrose,
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Jewish groups' reckless accusations of 'anti-Semitism' sets us down a dangerous path | Aug 24 2016 | Yves Engler |
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Sticks and stone may break my bones, but names will never hurt me -- and they may come back to haunt the name-callers. In finding anti-Semites behind every challenge to Canadian complicity with Israeli colonialism, mainstream Jewish organizations are emptying the term "anti-Semitism" of its historical weight.
France's fear of the 'burkini' has nothing to do with protecting women | Aug 24 2016 | J. Baglow |
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. There was, of course, a subtext to the Paris murders of Charlie Hebdo staff and Jewish shoppers in a kosher supermarket all along. Vile crimes by any standard, these were the work of ISIS-supporting Islamists, and so the murders immediately became iconic. The Other had struck again.
Kim Kardashian is not a feminist -- get over it | Aug 23 2016 | Meghan Murphy |
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Is the TPP falling apart? Let's take a look at where the 12 nations are at | Aug 22 2016 | Marie Aspiazu |
Like this article? rabble is reader-supported journalism. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. As the ratification fight intensifies, we're watching closely as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) winds its way through national legislatures across the globe. So grab your popcorn, and let's take a look at where the TPP stands in each country yet to ratify. United States
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Ontario colleges want to turn your McJob into a McDiploma | Aug 30 2016 | Nora Loreto | Deconstructing the new partnership between Colleges Ontario and McDonald's
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Wildrose leader's public spat with the mayor of Montreal may not help, but it's likely to continue | Aug 29 2016 | David J. Climenhaga | A feud with a prominent Quebec politician may work for Alberta's conservatives if it encourages the NDP's campaign to win social license for pipelines fails.
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Women's Habitat shelter celebrates kitchen and programming expansions | Aug 28 2016 | Doreen Nicoll | Women’s Habitat opened its doors in Etobicoke in 1978. Since then, this emergency shelter has been busy expanding the essential ways it helps women and children.
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Ontario Hydro, negative politicking, the burkini, Salvador, Nestle and urban farming: What's new in the news | Aug 26 2016 | Emily Blake | rabble bloggers continue to bring informed takes on Canada's tops news stories! Here are some of the best blog posts of the week.
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Leaked document reveals EU Commission plans to go ahead with link tax | Aug 26 2016 | Ruth Coustick-Deal | Recent leaked Impact Assessment shows the European Commission intend to push ahead with link tax and ignore public consultation process.
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Canada helps tighten the tripwires on NATO's doomsday machine | Aug 25 2016 | Scott Vrooman | In which Scott Vrooman finally outs himself as a Kremlin agent.
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News you may have missed: Pollster says Alberta NDP could win an election held tomorrow! | Aug 25 2016 | David J. Climenhaga | A poll last week put the NDP in the lead in Alberta. Total words devoted to the development by mainstream media: 32.
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Alberta Health Services extends Dynalife medical lab services contract for five years | Aug 25 2016 | David J. Climenhaga | A year ago, Alberta's health minister told media she had seen no evidence the previous government's plan to further privatize medical lab services was in the interests of Albertans.
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Why are Dalhousie University students carrying costs for governments and CEOs? | Aug 24 2016 | Stephen Kimber | Dalhousie University is ponying up $300,000 USD to cover the cost for nine of the province's best and brightest (and richest) to attend an "entrepreneurship acceleration program" at MIT. Why?
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The business case for investing in Canada's auto industry | Aug 24 2016 | Armine Yalnizyan | Contract talks currently underway between Unifor and the Big Three U.S. auto manufacturers raise the old question: does Canada really need an auto industry, especially now that Mexico is a magnet?
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With a world in peril, where do our charitable donations have the most clout? | Aug 24 2016 | Gerry Caplan | So before summer's over, please shell out a couple of hundred bucks to your favourite NGO. And get angrier about obscene inequality. You won't be sorry.
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Opportunity is knocking: Let's end data caps in Canada | Aug 23 2016 | Katy Anderson | Here in Canada, none of the Big Three wireless providers even offer unlimited data as an option -- and that's simply not fair. Now is the time to end data caps in Canada.
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Nestle buys more groundwater as drought rages on in Southern Ontario | Aug 23 2016 | Mark Calzavara | In the middle of a severe drought in southern Ontario, bottled water giant Nestle is buying up more groundwater sources and now has permits to remove over 20 million litres of water per day.
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How much food can cities produce? | Aug 23 2016 | David Suzuki | Incorporating food production into ever-expanding urban areas makes cities more liveable and enhances the natural systems that keep us alive and healthy.
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If there's no Russian threat to the Baltics, why are Canada's soldiers there again? | Aug 22 2016 | David J. Climenhaga | NATO's top soldier lets it slip there's no evidence the Russians pose any threat to the three Baltic Republics. So what are Canadian soldiers doing there?
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Rio, homelessness, Colten Boushie, Tinder and journalism: What's new in the news? | Aug 19 2016 | Emily Blake | Each week rabble.ca bloggers bring you insightful pieces on the stories behind the nation's headlines.
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The spirit of Berta Cáceres: The power and playful defiance of Indigenous women at the World Social Forum | Aug 17 2016 | Rachel Warden | I had the honour of accompanying a group of Indigenous women and organizations to the World Social Forum, and felt like I was in the presence of the spirit of Berta Cáceres.
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Four things to know about women and homelessness in Canada | Aug 17 2016 | Sadie McInnes | It's time we pay attention to the unique experience of homeless women, and also take into account other identity-based barriers to housing and services that women face.
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Madonna and David Beckham, favela dwellers | Aug 17 2016 | Robin Browne | Afro-Brazilian favela dwellers now have rich foreign neighbours -- but you have to look closely to see them.
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Foundering ferry deal leaves Nova Scotia holding the purse | Aug 17 2016 | Stephen Kimber | As a new ferry sails through the same passenger-challenged, money-losing storm en route to the same subsidized disaster, should the premier still be unconditionally committed to it?
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